Rachel Berger is climate change policy advisor with Practical Action. Since joining the organisation in 2001 following the completion of a Masters degree in international rural development, Rachel has worked to support programmes to strengthen livelihood security in Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. From 2004, she has been active in a coalition of development and environment organisations working to press for urgent action to help poor communities adapt to climate change, and has provided case studies from Practical Action's work to the coalition's publications, the 'Up in Smoke' reports (availabale at http://www.upinsmokecoalition.org/). Her work is focused on ensuring that vulnerable rural communities in developing countries will receive adequate support to help them adapt to future climate change. A key part of this work involves engaging in the international policy process, particularly through the meetings of the UNFCCC. She has written policy briefings on issues of climate change and development, and managed international projects piloting community based approaches to adaptation, and is currently writing, with a colleague, a book on experiences of community based adaptation based on Practical Action's work.
Former President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007, Josep Borrell Fontelles is Member of the European Parliament.
As of January 2007 Mr Borrell is the chair of the Committee on Development and member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Mr. Borrell has a long political experience: member of Regional Parliament for Madrid (1979-1982) and Member of the Congress of Deputies (1986-2004), he has been appointed Secretary of State for Finance (1984-1991) and then Minister for Public Works, Transport, the Environment and Telecommunications (1991-1996). In 2002-2003 he has been member of the European Convention.
He holds a degree in Aeronautical Engineer, a PhD in economics, a Master's degree in applied mathematics and a Master's degree in the economics of oil. He has bee university lecturer and Chair of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Bernadette Lahai – ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Parliament of Sierra Leone
Currently Member of Parliament of Sierra Leone and ACP-EU JPA, Mrs. Lahai has chaired from 2002 to 2007 the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and Food security. She is Chairman of the African Parliamentarian's Network against Climate Change and Coordinator for the Presidential Initiative on Cassava in Sierra Leone. She is a specialist by profession of Agricultural extension and Rural Development and has worked for 13 years as Researcher in the Institute of Agricultural Research in Njala, Sierra Leone
Dr Müller is currently Director (Energy & Environment) at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, which he joined in February 1996, Managing Director of Oxford Climate Policy (a not-for-profit company aimed at capacity building for developing country climate change negotiators), and Director of the European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi), an international initiative for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations. Dr Müller is a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and a member of the Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University. He is Senior Research Associate of Queen Elizabeth House the University’s International Development Centre, and an Associate Fellow of its Environmental Change Institute and the Centre for Brazilian Studies. He is on the board of directors of the Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford) and of Climate Strategies, a London-based academic network organisation focused on developing and delivering research to meet the needs of international climate change policymaking. He is also an advisor to the Energy, Environment, and Development Programme of Chatham House (formerly Royal Institute of International Affairs, London). Dr Müller received his doctorate (D.Phil.) in Philosophy from the University of Oxford specialising in Philosophy of Language and of Science and was formerly a Research Fellow at WolfsonCollege and a Lecturer in Logic at the Queen's College, Oxford.He has a Diploma in Mathematics from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland.He has also been an expert reviewer of the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Leo Peskett joined ODI in 2005 and leads the Institute’s research on climate change. His research interests focus on climate change impacts and climate change policies in the forest, natural resource and agricultural sectors in developing countries, and their implications for the poor. His most recent work includes support to the Indonesian Government on designing a national system for ‘Reduced emissions from deforestation’ (REDD) linked to carbon markets; work with the DFID India and the Indian Government to design a fund to support climate change adaptation and access to carbon markets by the poor.He has also been involved in research on the relationships between biofuels, agriculture and poverty reduction and on the impacts of climate change on agriculture in developing countries, focussing on the implications for policy processes. Prior to joining ODILeo worked as a consultant on climate change policy for the government (Defra, DTI), private sector (Shell, BT) and various NGO/IGOs (UNEP, British Council). He holds a first degree in Natural Sciences (specialising in Geology and climate science) and an MSc in Global Environmental Change Policy.
Lluis Riera Figueras is Director of the Development Policy, Thematic issues directorate, at the European Commission DG Development, from January 2007.
He joined the European Commission in 1987, after a ten-years experience as Professor ofEuropean Economy and International Trade. He has been Head of Unit for the Relations with the Institutions and Coastal and Western Africa at EC DG Development form 1991 to 1996, then Director for European Social Fund operations at EC DG Employment and Social Affairs from 1996 to 2002 and Director for Instruments for Structural policies for pre-accession at DG Regional Policy from 2002 to 2006.
Mark W. Rosegrant is the Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. With a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, he has 28 years of experience in research and policy analysis in agriculture and economic development, with an emphasis on water resources and other critical natural resource and agricultural policy issues as they impact food security, rural livelihoods, and environmental sustainability. Dr. Rosegrant developed IFPRI's International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), which has become a standard for projections and scenarios for global and regional food demand, supply, trade, and prices; and IMPACT-WATER, which integrates a detailed water supply and demand model with the food model. He currently directs research on climate change, water resources, sustainable land management, genetic resources and biotechnology, and agriculture and energy. He is the author or editor of seven books and over 100 refereed papers in agricultural economics, water resources, and food policy analysis. Dr. Rosegrant has won numerous awards, is a Fellow of the AmericanAcademy for the Advancement of Science, and in 2007 was elected Distinguished Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association.
Ishmael Daniso Sunga joined the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Union (SACAU) in January, 2005 as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr Sunga holds a Bachelor of Economics degree and an MSc degree in Strategic Management. Ishmael has more than 12 years experience working with international development agencies and as an independent consultant. His experience spans several countries in Africa, Europe and Asia. Mr. Sunga’s main interests have been in agriculture and rural development; policy research, lobby and advocacy; project design and management; management of development agencies; small enterprise development; capacity development of membership organisations and fundraising for development support.
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